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Grammar Geek
- Cassell (octopus)
- by Michael Powell
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Publisher | Cassell (octopus) |
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ISBN | 9781788402002 |
Author(s) | Michael Powell |
Publication date | October 2019 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 200 x 140 mm |
Pages | 96 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
English is full of beauty and surprises, yet despite being the lingua franca of the globalization world, it has a reputation for being difficult to learn because its grammar has also so many quirks and contradictions.
Did you know:
- "Terry loves yogurt" is an example of illeism
- preposition stranding is a bogus rule
- sometimes it's acceptable to begin a sentence with "but" or "and"
- "Could you pass the salt?" is "whimperative"
- it's OK to boldy split infinitives.
Many of us don't even know the basics, so not only does Grammar Geek reveal obscure grammar rules and bogus ones you can safely ignore, it's also a handy primer, so in the future you'll have no excuse for dangling a modifier or misplacing a semicolon.
Grammar Geek